Posted on 06/25/2012 5:34:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
As Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney in the polls narrows, and his presumed fundraising advantage seems about to become a disadvantage, it's alibi time for some of his backers. His problem, they say, is that some voters don't like him because he's black.
Or they don't like his policies because they don't like having a black president.
So, you see, if you don't like ObamaCare, it's not because it threatens to take away your health insurance, or to deny coverage for some treatments. It's because you don't like black people.
This sort of thing seems to be getting more frequent, or at least more open. As White House Dossier writer Keith Koffler notes, HBO host Bill Maher accused Internet tyro Matt Drudge of being animated by racism because he highlights anti-Obama stories.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown if House Chairman Darrell Issa's treatment of Attorney General Eric Holder was "ethnic." Brown agreed, and Matthews said some Republicans "talk down to the president and his friends."
There's an obvious problem with the racism alibi. Barack Obama has run for president before, and he won. Voters in 2008 knew he was black. Most of them voted for him. He carried 28 states and won 365 electoral votes.
Nationwide, he won 53% of the popular vote. That may not sound like a landslide, but it's a higher percentage than any Democratic nominee except Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
Democratic national conventions have selected nominees 45 times since 1832. In seven cases, they won more than 53% of the vote. In 37 cases, they won less.
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Thank you so I didn’t have to do it (correct isle to aisle).
Barone is saying, in a delicate way that won't get him excommunicated like John Derbyshire, that blacks aren't voting for Obama because he's black - they're voting for him because he's a Democrat, the party of racial preferences and freebies. If Obama had gotten the GOP nomination and run as a RINO, he would have gotten the same % of the black vote as other black GOP candidates - 10%. Blacks stepped all over Clarence Thomas during the judicial confirmation process despite the fact that he was black - they understood all too clearly that his nomination would not advance the cause of more freebies and more racial preferences for blacks.
We don’t want to bury this guy too quickly since we DO want him to be the nominee.
Remember when they said GW Bush was a frat BOY and made fun of rumors of past cocaine use and posted up comparative pictures of monkeys and Bush expressions?
All of that is considered "racist" if you make the same analogies to Mr. Obama.
The quote, from p. 183 of The Crowd, is:
". . . the candidate who hits on a new formula as devoid as possible of precise meaning, and apt in consequence to flatter the most varied aspirations, infallibly obtains a success."
Hope and Change anyone?
Yes I do remember, and I do remember all the names they called him
> Are we supposed to be impressed with these people getting the obvious?
It’s obvious to you and me for two reasons.
1. We don’t trust the legacy media.
2. We do our own homework.
Most people trust the legacy media, so they don’t bother to do any homework.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
despite the fact obammy is the worst president in America’s history, I hate his guts cause he is a negro?
The fact he is an American hating marxist narcissist punk has nothing to do with it.
D.C. and the people who vote was the intent of the post. Though the people grow increasingly desperate for leaders to come forth, the demons (always) are present to bore into the minds of people and claim they (the demons) have the solutions when the people become desperate. The lack of true Constitutional leaders within our federal, state, and local governments allow demons to occupy those offices, halls and floors of our institutions till the demons have absolute control, whereupon the institution fail (as was ordained) and only God may or may not come to the rescue. Ordained by the people voting and those who actually do not lead according to our Nation’s Constitution, or is a light still shining on the top of that hill? Prayer for a light, and prayer the light does not light a fuse which goes boom.
Well, that is why I didn’t point it out and was happy the other poster took the brunt of the expected reaction. FRee Republic is a forgiving place, and I make more than my share of typos and misspellings. In fact, I just tagged one of my own on another thread.
OTOH, I am a former editor and struggle with a compulsion to correct things like mis-placed apostrophes (does anyone know the correct use of the apostrophe anymore?) and using the wrong (but similar sounding) word, or to correct objects (who/whom). It’s a gift and a curse, as Monk (the famous obsessive/compulsive TV detective) would say.
You are doing fine, and your meaning came through loud and clear. I’ll try to restrain myself.
(Did I mention that the over use of parentheses is another ‘crime’ in the English language?)
Thank You and am LOL. Your criticism is appreciated, even though am too old to learn new tricks. That dog does not hunt anymore. This old dog fell out of the wagon at an early age. Pulled the wagon till his back was all bent out of shape and then realized, dang the wagon is overflowing ... no room for this old dog. Thank You for the laughing and it was directed at myself.
Sorry could not resist.lol
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